Re: yet another romance conlang

Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
>
> Ju:dajca is spoken in an alternate-history conearth where the Romans
> didn't succeed in wiping Judea off the map.  a bit nicer than the romans
> in RL, these con-romans' plan for stopping judean revolts was to attempt
> to swamp the country with imperial colonists.
I love this setting! Well, I like alternate timelines, but I've never
dared attempting one in full.


> simple stops:  / p t k b d g /  ~  { p t c b d g }
>
> stops' allophones:  [ P s x B z G ]  ~  (marked in 'full writing' with
> cedillas), according to Hebrew "beged-kefet" rules, only staying hard at
> the beginning of a word, after a syllable-ending consonant, and between
> two vowels where the first is 'small', some other exceptions.
Could you explain 'small' and 'big' vowels? Are they short and long
respectively? I think you mentioned this once... Are these ones
the beged-kefet rules?

> tap:  / r /  ~  { r }
At the beginning of words too?

> 'small' vowels:  / a E i o u /  ~  { a e i o u }
>
> 'big' vowels:  / A<r> e ij ow uw /  ~  { a: e: i: o: u: }, {:} = macron.
Oh, forget the question about vowels. But what is /A<r>/?

> Ju:dajca is commonly written in boustrophedon style, with alternating
> lines of latin (left-to-right) and hebrew (right-to-left) scripts.
Must be pretty confusing, huh? I'd like to see some ancient
manuscripts if you have them at hand. :)


> En el mundo es importante que
> siempre recordemos -
> tu' no puedes mirar el futuro.  Y
> e'so me da miedo.
> Be'salas a las horas que pasan,
> antes que te abandonen -
> ni aqui' ni alla', en la oscuridad.
Is this yours?

In any case, *<e'so> doesn't need an accute (<esto> and <aquello>
don't either). And you may want to say just _Besa las horas_, for
the sake of both grammar (nah...) and rhythm. _Antes que_ could
also be _antes de que_ (those two forms are the source of endless
and fruitless dispute) -- but this one sounds more spontaneous
and keeps the rhythm.


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/draseleq.html